Anarchists in the Philippines are organising an ‘Autonomous Spaces & Infoshops Conference’. The conference is scheduled to take place over two days in August 2014 in Muntinlupa City. A range of infoshops and other projects have been invited to participate, among them:

The second edition of Sedition was launched at the inaugural Sydney Anarchist Bookfair. It contains articles on ‘How I became an anarchist’, ‘The wage system and its abolition’, ‘A brief history of the International Workers Association in Australia’ and more. Printed copies are available at Jura Books in Sydney and the Melbourne Anarchist Club in Melbourne. You can download a copy of #1 and #2 here. A third edition is planned for publication later in the year.

The third annual Camp Anarchy is scheduled for the Labor Day weekend, March 8-10. The Camp is held at ‘Camp Eureka’ in outer (outer) Melbourne: 100 Tarrango Road, Yarra Junction (Mel. Ref: 288 K10). It’s about an hour’s drive from the city. See the Camp Anarchy website for more information.

Sydney Anarchist Bookfair

The first Sydney Anarchist Bookfair is taking place on Saturday 22nd March 2014 at Gumbramorra Hall/Addison Road Community Center in Marrickville, Sydney. For further information see the Bookfair Facebook page.

Social Centres

A new social centre is opening in Melbourne.

h.o.p.

-H.O.P Community Centre- is a new space in an old fruit shop at 659 Plenty Road, Reservoir. It’s having a launch party on February 1. -Contact- h.o.pcommunitycentre[@]gmail.com for further details. [Facebook]

Etnikobandido Infoshop [Manila, Philippines]
Celebrated its third birthday on September 17, 2013. “Etnikobandido infoshop is an anarchist social space in the eastern part of manila who is actively involved in different projects and campaigns like CopWatch, Food Not Bombs, MindsetBreaker Press and Mobile Anarchist School. Etnikobandido infoshop still continue his aim to spread radical consciousness through his community library and offer different literature for further knowledge and alternative information. Etnikobandido infoshop became a hub for the anti-authoritarian bloc to make meetings, discussion, planning, film screening and workshop.” Email: etnikobandido[at]yahoo[dot]com[dot]ph

Fierce Dreams
A gathering of ‘green’ anarchists from October 18–20 2013, somewhere in the Blue Mountains (west of Sydney, NSW).

If We Can’t Dance
~ an anarcha-feminist / queer-anarchist discussion group ~ based in Melbourne.

The Victorian chapter of the interim International Organisation for a Participatory Society. Current projects include a free English language class program, organising for a new worker and patient run health cooperative, and various community art initiatives. Other activities range from discussion forums and film screenings to community gardening. Open meetings are usually held fortnightly on Sundays at 2pm at the Global Cities Research Institute, 17/23 Lygon St, Carlton (see the Events page for details).

The Anarchist Melbourne Bookfair will be a free event held at Abbotsford Convent (St Heliers Street, Abbotsford) from 10am-6pm on Saturday 10th of August. The bookfair consists of up to 40 stalls of independent book-sellers and activist groups. Alongside the stalls there will be about 21 one-hour workshops running all day on all kinds of anarchist and direct action topics. There is also a small kids’ space with volunteers to help carers, or for carers to self-organise child minding, or if the kids just want to play indoors.